#masculinities

[muchomacho]

[clandestinegardenias]

For the final exam in my Masculinities class I offered 1 extra credit point if the student told me a joke using one of the terms from class and they are ROLLING IN. A selection for your enjoyment:

What do you call a man who's made of leaves and isn't emotionally available? A hedgemonic man!

Why did the unusually small chicken cross the road? To prove his masculinity through risk taking!

What do you call a relationship between two paralegals that met at a mixer? A para-social relationship!

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

AFAB Masc Pride Flag

AFAB/DFAB masc: someone who was assigned/designated female (or feminine, depending where one lives) at birth and experiences masculinity as a gender quality.

This gender quality can stand for anything related to it: modifiers, modalities (e.g. transmasc, intramasculine, admasc, sensmasc, cismasc), presentation/expression (masc-presenting), alignment (e.g. phoebian, masc-aligned), identity (e.g. mingender, mideospec), element (fervian), energy (ie. juparian), aura, etc.

[queermasculine]

Ariel shot by Lucas Passmore, 2014.

[eleiyaumei]

Oh, how masculinities change through times and target audiences...

Historical Hijikata & Kondō VS Moeyo Ken (1966) VS Hakuōki (2008--)

Furthermore, there seems to be a general consensus that Hijikata had/must have a deep voice which can lead to Hijikata-actors adjusting their voices in ways that look and sound unnatural...

Example: Kurizuka Asahi in Moeyo Ken (1966) & Nakamura Yuichi in Hakuōki: Sweet School Life (2015)

Moeyo Ken (1966) is the adaptation of the book of the same name which was mentioned in an academic paper that compared the book to Gintama. I uploaded an extract of the paper here.

You can watch the movie for free (with English subtitles) on archive.org.

(This topic about masculinities and representation of historical figures through time and target audience might be something for you @scarletfantasia​.)

[ineffable-opinions]

Masculinities in China and Male Androphilia

Masculinity in China historically has been (mostly) of Wu-type (military - type) and Wen-type (scholarly - type). Due to the special nature of Chinese political system (imperial court & civil services), scholar wielded power and influence, often over-taking that of military men.

Colonialism flipped this order. It was internalized by the subjects of colonialism too. Its lasting impact can be seen in the recent “effeminacy” ban in China’s entertainment industry targeting little fresh meat aesthetics.

Protest masculinity

Against (both organic and stereotyped) association of femme-presentation or ‘camp’ with androphilia. Popular opinion inculcated by media is partially responsible.

2. Against a society that doesn’t treat them as equal men. Hegemonic masculinity is constructed in opposition with ‘inferior men’ such as androphilic men and more importantly with women. By adopting visual Wu-masculinity, androphilic men hijacks the visuals, rendering the visual categorization redundant.

3. For gaydar purposes - signaling to men who are androphilic and them alone.

This is not without negative impact:

It can lead to peer-pressure to conform & homogenize to Wu-ideal to the extent that other presentations could get vilified. This can include scorning of soft and delicate aesthetics and femme-bashing.

2. Conforms with the mainstream view – both that of their present-day oppressors, mainly the Wu-exalting, heterosexist State and their historic oppressors: colonialism and its modern-day offsprings.

[fundgruber]

by Will McPhail

[carlosandresgomez]

"Magic" by Carlos Andrés Gómez

Music & production by Joe West & Brent Shuttleworth

Film editing by Brent Shuttleworth

[tortoisetrainer]

"Consuming Manhood: The Feminization of American Culture and the Recreation of the Male Body, 1832–1920", The History Of Men: Essays On The History Of American And British Masculinities by Michael S. Kimmel

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Two crises arose from [the] conflict between idealized masculinity and the emotional reality of war trauma. The first came on the battlefield in 1916 when, in some cases, almost half the soldiers evacuated from the front were said to be suffering from mental breakdowns due to war trauma. The second came later, during the Great Depression, when a significant number of veterans began to seek compensation for their psychological injuries. Both concern soldiers or veterans – constructed as the ultimate manly men – and psychosomatic behaviours usually associated with hysterics – the archetypal example of the ‘flawed’ feminine. 

Much was at stake. On the battlefield, war trauma tested the state’s ability to make war and its control over the male body. In postwar hearing rooms, pensions and compensation for indigent soldiers framed the negotiations between citizen and state. In both cases, the debate threatened to explode dominant conceptions of masculinity and separate sphere ideologies by legitimizing transgressions against dominant gender expectations. In this debate, male doctors were the arbiters, forced to defend long-standing medical knowledges and the supremacy of the outward-looking, othering male medical gaze.

....doctors were reluctant to address the issue of male trauma precisely because it was so problematic, but when forced to do so as crises arose on the battlefield or in pensioning, they relied on a medical epistemology that delegitimized the symptoms of traumatized males. In effect, doctors constructed trauma as an individual failure to meet masculine ideals in order to parry a larger challenge to idealized masculinities. In creating a link between war trauma and underlying gender and social deviance, they reinforced a residual conception of welfare that used tests of morals and means to determine who was deserving or undeserving of state assistance. At a time when the Canadian welfare state was being transformed in response to the needs of veterans and their families, doctors’ denial that ‘real men’ could legitimately exhibit psychosomatic symptoms in combat meant that thousands of legitimately traumatized veterans were left uncompensated by the state and were labelled as inferior, deviant men.”

- Mark Humphries, “War’s Long Shadow: Masculinity, Medicine, and the Gendered Politics of Trauma, 1914–1939,” The Canadian Historical Review 91, 3, September 2010: p. 508

[animentality]

[muchomacho]

[coffeeworldsasaki]

Over a 100???? It was just the guy in the photo a couple days ago djsjdjks

[talisidekick]

Unfriendly reminder that while you're busy mourning the loss of your childs old gender, claiming you need to mourn the death of your son/daughter, there's a group of boys/girls/enbies scrambling to take your kid clothes shopping, snatching up the chance to take those "first" experiences from you forever. Your sons first fishing trip is gonna be with his best bros, your daughters first makeover is going to be with her girl friends, your kids first camping trip out as themselves is gonna be with the besties. Good luck getting those bonding experiences back. While you're busy trying to guilt-trip your kid with your weird manufactured parental trauma, there's a whole community ready to take your place as the better family.

Your loss, someone elses gain.

[slithymomerath]

⚠️ warning: side effects of testosterone ⚠️

✅ harder

✅ better

✅ faster

✅ stronger

[island-76]

Here's your reminder that AFAB doesn't mean that person has breasts and a vagina. That AMAB doesn't mean that person has a flat chest and a dick.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE DICKS.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE FLAT CHESTS.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE BEARDS.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE DEEP VOICES

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE TITS

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE PUSSIES

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE CURVES

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE HIGH-PITCHED VOICES

Don't let AMAB and AFAB become the progressive binary